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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush: "We are dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history." Push has appropriated vast federal resources to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
78,000 people are currently in shelters. New Orleans evacuation continues. 10,000 additional National Guard troops have been called to service.
Hospitals are running low on supplies, and public health concerns include water borne disease, poor sanitation, food and drinking water contamination and shortages, mosquitoes, carbon monixide poisoning from electricity generators, lack of childcare, and the special needs of the elderly.
Links to various news, local and state government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends (very slow load)
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
Inside Houma Today includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers
Streaming Video:
WWL-TV: http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx"
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Related FR Threads:
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Martial Law Declared in New Orleans
Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.
www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Did you see the little girl standing on a cement barrier crying for someone to come and push their old, beat up car? Some older man was standing behind asking for a push, the car had water half way up the door and they thought they could drive it out of there... no windows I could see in it, very sad and a really cute girl about 9 or 10.
I think you may be right.......but I went to the page and I don't really cache pages.........
It's not over yet ... ooof ... punched in the tummy ...
If you would have caught it just a few moments before, they went right past a dog hanging on for life in a tree. After that, and the man, I had to stop watching.
They're about to be out of their boutique blend gas, and the oil supply pipeline for the east coast is completely offline - guess where their oil came from.
I saw that. I also saw whoever was filming it leave the little girl behind crying.
I think I have made a mistake........I'm going to have that pulled!
Do you know what it's like to try and walk around in silt? As this water sits there just getting around will get harder and harder each day.
That definitely would make some great video on how to handle looters!
is this from yesterday?
Again, I know humans are the priority, but how these rescuers can leave dogs behind is beyond me. I could never do it. Guess I'd make a poor rescuer.
A large disaster not yet reported b/c it hasn't fully taken effect is the dividing of this nation against its leadership that is beginning to snowball.
I fear leadership is trapped b/c they are making decisions now based on hard/blunt estimates that they do not want to share and create undue panic.
But, at the same time the media is playing 24 hours of suffering people the media can reach, while giving us the sense of anger and frustration as to why the rescuers cannot do the same.
This will only give black eyes and perhaps even a knock out punch to all leadership involved and unfortunately will become politicized with time.
And, then there's Iraq... you know they suffered the worst days thus far today with that stampede that killed scores.
We are going to make it through this (positive), but the face of our nation, our leadership, portions of our economy are going to be changed.
I thought the Katrina runoff was filling up Lake Ponchatrain again, which will cause more flooding down hill
It ripped my heart out. And the man was much older. I am sure that that dog was a very important part of his life. And worse, as they left the dog was looking very lost.
As the waters go down, the LAST thing the survivors are going to want to deal with are packs of starving dogs...
Not quite as dangerous as gang members... But...
The whole delta is silt. This hurricane very well may have done enough for the GOM to reclaim New Orleans. If not, it has certainly created channels for the next to finish it off.
Dustin Hoffman always had "figures in his possession" in that movie where he was a savant. ;)
The thought of that breaks my heart. Two things that upset me over the people who stayed behind to ride it out: innocent children and pets.... and yes, to the elderly their pets are sometimes all they have to make life worth living.
Well as the church lady used to say....NEVERMIND!
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